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>how do you make people go along with your goals? This is the challenge that "degrowth" or other scarcity-rooted environmentalists have. When you are pushing a
by dublinben 3y ago
>how do you make people go along with your goals?
This is the challenge that "degrowth" or other scarcity-rooted environmentalists have. When you are pushing a promise of deprivation on the currently comfortable, your message is going to struggle to gain traction. For any movement, it is of primary tactical importance to have a message that is appealing to your audience.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIt's not the currently comfortable who push back the most, it's those who don't have much and hear that they will have to lose even that (even if this is not true). Constraints on the rich are popular even among some of the rich. Shared suffering is something the poor, rightfully, don't believe.
- imtringued 3y agoI feel like you are missing an opportunity here, the submission is about longtermism. If you wanted to stay on topic you would say something like, if people have the option of certain deprivation and uncertain deprivation (effects of climate change) they will choose uncertain deprivation and that is exactly the problem with longtermism as well.